Real Men

Now a days it's pretty hard to be a "Real Man" because masculinity is determined by the things we have or don't have, whether it be a nice car or a girlfriend or money or any amount of things. It's not only things though, it's also actions or certain language like not keeping your purity or cussing. I mean why is being a "man" measured by how much money you have or how often you get drunk. Right now I'm reading the book "Wild at Heart" by John Eldredge. He talks about what a true man needs and I've agreed with every word he's said about how a man needs to have adventure or do the dangerously hard thing -- and that is definitely true for me and every man on earth. So it doesn't matter if you work in a office or free run everywhere you go, every man craves adventure and danger deep down inside; but so often the wild heart in a man is killed due to things like being told they're worthless or dumb.

 Austria

 Our village in Germany

The man that is wild at heart will always and forever take risks. It doesn't matter who he is or what he's done he will always be Wild at heart. But that brings something else up, why do people tell boys or men to tone it down or to always be polite or proper?  There's nothing wrong with being proper or polite, but if people are constantly telling the future men to tone it down there won't be any more real men.

I looove to run and jump more than just about anything! I, for one, love adventure and hard situations where I will have to run up a wall or vault  over something in order to "escape" or get out in one piece! Sometimes I tell my mom that I wish bullies would chase me just so I could use my free running skills to get away, don't all of us men wish that could happen to us every now and then? Or to chase the bad guy. After all why would God put that desire deep down inside of us if he didn't want us to change the world. And why do you think that us men love movies like BraveHEART or Gladiator or the Lord Of the Rings series... because God made us defenders and warriors, in order to kill the enemy.

 Me jumping as far as I can off a bench!!!

 (Brugge, Belgium)

 This was one of the highest jumps I've ever done; It was awesome!

I love to live at a hundred miles an hour.  I love to live extreme.

I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences

I can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences

Don't fence me in.

-Cole Porter

                                                                 "Don't fence me in"